Brian Tracy

The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.

The development of unshakable self-confidence, therefore, begins with you taking full, complete, systematic and purposeful control of the contents of your conscious mind, disciplining yourself to think consistently about only the things that you desire and to resolutely keep your mind off the things that you fear.

The foundation of self-confidence is for you to live your life consistent with your innermost values and principles, while thinking and acting in harmony with your highest aspirations.

You can only really believe in yourself when you absolutely know that you have the ability to do what you set out to do.

thoughts held in mind produce after their kind

This law says that if there is anything you want in life, any effect that you desire, you can probably acquire it. You simply find others who have achieved the same result or effect that you desire. You then discipline yourself to do the same things that they did, over and over, until you eventually get the same

there was something I wanted, I just had to find out how other people had achieved it.

Winners always ascribe their success to hard work and application. Mediocre people always ascribe their failures to bad luck.

What you achieve is the result of what you do, or fail to do, day by day and year by year.

By deciding to think only about the things you want, you can become an extremely lucky person.